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• Conferences and Calls for Papers
• Funding Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
• Papers and Presentations

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Current News

Announcements

Call for Nominations

The American Economic Association is looking for the next editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Recommendations can be sent to Rebecca Blank, Chair, JEP Editor Search Committee, jepeditorsearch@vanderbilt.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2007

Nominations Sought for The 2008 Charles A. Black Award

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)
Deadline: August 1, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/CharlesA.Black-Award.pdf

Conferences and Calls for Papers

15th World Congress of the International Economic Association

Istanbul, Turkey, June 25-29, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/IEA-WorldCongress.pdf
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/IEA-CallforPapers.pdf

American Economic Journal Call for Papers

Applied Economics
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-applied/
Economic Policy
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-policy/
Macroeconomics
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-macro/
Microeconomics
http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-micro/

ATHGO International

"The Role of Good Governance in Economic Development"
World Bank, Washington, DC, August 1-3, 2007
http://www.athgo.org/

Funding Opportunities

Iowa Beef Industry Council

Request for Pre-Proposals
Deadline: September 1, 2007
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/IowaBeef.pdf

Iowa Energy Center

Research and Demonstration Projects
Pre-proposal deadline: August 20, 2007
http://www.energy.iastate.edu/funding/gp-research.html

Job Opportunities

Economic Research Service, USDA

Agricultural Economist positions
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobId=59678511&AVSDM=7/10/2007+8:24:55+AM
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=ERS-2007-0096
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=ERS-2007-0097

Food and Nutrition Service

Social Science Research Analyst, Food Stamp Evaluation Branch
http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/jobsearch.asp?q=07-FNS-215P&salmin=&salmax=&paygrademin=&paygrademax=&FedEmp=N&tm=&sort=rv&vw=d&brd=3876&ss=0&FedPub=Y&SUBMIT1.x=0&SUBMIT1.y=0

University of Nebraska Northeast Research and Extension Center

District Director
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/UnivofNebraska.pdf

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

International Agricultural Internship Program
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/iaip/index.htm
Career Internship Program (CIP)
http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/newjobs/careerintern1.html

Papers and Presentations

Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion

Junjie Sun. "Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Agent-Based Computational Approach," presented at the 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Society for Computational Economics, Montreal, Canada, June 14-16, 2007 and at the 2007 North American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 21-24, 2007.

Leigh Tesfatsion. "Agents Come to Bits: Towards a Constructive Comprehensive Taxonomy of Economic Entities," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 63, Issue 2, June 2007, 333-346.

Open-Source Software Release: The AMES Market Package (Java) - A Free Open-Source Test Bed for the Agent-Based Modeling of Electricity Systems. Copyright holders (GNU GPL): Junjie Sun, Hongyan Li, and Leigh Tesfatsion. Release Date: 14 July 2007.
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/AMESMarketHome.htm

Open-Source Software Release: DCOPFJ (Java) - A Free Open-Source Solver for DC Optimal Power Flow Problems. Copyright holders (GNU GPL): Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion. Release Date: 20 June 2007.
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/DCOPFJHome.htm